David Jeffery

Dr David Jeffery is senior lecturer in British politics at the University of Liverpool.

St George’s flags and the myth of ‘Scouse not English’

From our UK edition

Operation Raise the Colours, a grassroots movement to adorn our towns and cities with England flags, has swept across the country. It has even hit Liverpool – long mythologised as a bastion of left-wing exceptionalism, and where Labour conference starts today. St George’s crosses can now be found across the north of the city: Dovecot, Knotty